six in business will meet in the swiss alps for the world economic watch will be top of the agenda. engages in rigorous debate cutting through the headline. and in a week of special coverage will be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january on al-jazeera. iran calls on its citizens to avoid what it terms that the cold gatherings as protests over the country's a chronic continue for us third. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the

program palestinians in gaza born a man shot by israeli soldiers during a protest over u.s. troops and. the greek government says it wants to cancel the asylum that's just being granted to a turkish soldier who's accused of taking part in last year's attempted coup and the record breaking cold snap in the us that is so bad that sharks are freezing to death. thank you for joining us we begin the program in iran where the government is calling on people not to take part in what it says are illegal gatherings for a third consecutive day there were protests in a number of cities across the country outside tehran university dozens of students chanted anti-government slogans they were dispersed by riot police in large crowds of pro-government protesters pizza shop has more. for the third day in

a row they are out on the streets fighting with police went on into the night anti-government protesters most of them students facing up to riot police outside tear on university but what began as a protest about rising food prices and welfare benefit cuts turned political on saturday. earlier in the day they chanted not gaza not lebanon my life whereon i hear. you don't be afraid we're standing strong together. expression of anger about claims that government is focusing more on regional issues the economic problems at home. people ringing in t.v. showed a display of strength by crowds of pro-government supporters in cities nationwide tens of thousands of people on the streets chanting death to america down with israel in support iran's supreme leader ali khamenei at or that people have

protested against inflation other problems but that does not show that our people have turned on each other or are against the ruling system and their leadership. the pro-government rallies were pre-planned to mark the anniversary of the end of the unrest that shook the country in two thousand and nine unrest in iran prompted several tweets from the u.s. president on saturday warning oppressive regimes to offer evidence in all but many reports of peaceful protests bahraini and citizens fed up with the regime's corruption and squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad iranian government should respect their people's rights including rights to express themselves the world is watching. for some time now there's been some disparate groups have been protesting whether it was sabre's who've lost their savings through this crap financial situations where his pension is no longer going their pensions will have to live on which is pensions as people are worried about the

environment this woman is all these groups and they're interested in testing and you could see that those slogans are now becoming more radical you could say that the atmosphere is going tense or intense and most of all what you could say is that they no longer seem to have that fear from the security forces there in the other. one this was a huge display of support for the reigning leadership the government will be concerned it just how quickly a protest about food prices could become political pizza shop al jazeera. showing hunter is a professor specializing in iran at georgetown university in washington d.c. she says the tweets from donald trump are likely to play into the hands of hardliners in iran the. presidents twit's i think is going to be manipulated by hardliners and they are going to raise again they showed that america wants to have a you know color revolution in iran or

a velvet revolution in iran they always you know. resort to their home or try to have external intervention or an external entity they just don't want to accept responsibility that their management of the country in the past forty years has been absolutely disastrous. at least nine people have been killed in airstrikes on the besieged at the mask a suburb of easton who on saturday footage has emerged showing rescuers carrying two babies from a building aid agencies this week evacuated twenty nine critically ill people including children from eastern who is part of a deal with the syrian government they say the siege imposed by government forces has resulted in a humanitarian emergency meanwhile syrian rebels and their families have started to arrive in the region south of the mask this following another government deal

a convoy of buses carrying about four hundred fighters and their families was allowed to leave the rebel enclave in beit jane and travel to divide and did leave the rebels last page into the syrian government and its allies after heavy fighting earlier response. the funeral has been held for a palestinian man who was shot by israeli soldiers during a protest in gaza the twenty year old was one of thousands of palestinians involving clashes with the israeli military along the gaza border and they're angry at the u.s. decision to recognize to slip as the capital of israel these really military says them straight has a role to burning tires and school rocks at soldiers it says troops fired selectively against four main instigator what has more now from the few. the.

friday when. we talked to the went off to do. that today morning from his injuries to ministry of health says he's a sixty five to die in the on the left in the file and the since six december the u.s. president trump said america would recognize resulin as the capital of israel. it's a very bad decision for the palestinian people the americans are supporting israel in our own land we are people in our homeland and have given a martyr for palestine and for jerusalem it's no more for the political factions and the armed groups in gaza whose leaders are for the young men to go to the border protest to fund the sheen rules those are being killed this once funded by the armed supported by the armed wing of fatah leaders every friday for the last month of course protestors to go to the border the separation wall and fence that

surrounds gaza are now about five or six different places that clash with the israeli soldiers who try to take us some life bullets. and there's no sign that they're going to give up anytime soon. meanwhile palestine has recalled its ambassador. to pakistan after he attended an event with the alleged mastermind of the mumbai attacks palestinian envoy. was pictured sharing a stage with have fees a sayed was accused of planning the two thousand and eight pac the pair were at a rally criticizing u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. egypt's former president mohamed morsy has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of insulting the judiciary for a speech that he made while in office morsi has been tried in several cases after he was the pows following mass protests and a military coup in two thousand and thirteen he's already serving a twenty year sentence in another case on charges of inciting attacks on protesters

in two thousand and twelve the top appeals court in september upheld a separate twenty five year term on charges of harming national security by leaking state documents to cover. russia's supreme court has upheld the ban on opposition leader alexina valley running for president next year the valley has been barred because of a fraud conviction which he says is politically motivated he's calling on his supporters to boycott the vote president vladimir putin is why the expected to clean a forced her the greek government has moved to block asylum being granted to one of eight turkish soldiers who fled their country during last year's failed coup an asylum tribunal ruled in favor of the man's appeal and is still considering the cases of the other seven but the government has filed a request that the council the ruling earlier turkey's foreign minister said the

decision would harm bilateral ties and regional cooperation the rule of tomorrow is one of the lawyers of the soldiers she says the asylum tribunal has firmly resist that pressure from the government. there is not an ongoing dispute between the greek government and the greek judges the last three weeks and the greek government is trying to win friends certain great judges and also the justice and the greek judges respond to a very fair and that is a very very strong answer after this are all going to spew it so i'm extremely happy over there when i actually because the judge is the great judge just i'm biased and in part in an impartial way on nonce this decision i have also to explain to you that this is not the judicial decision this is an administrative decision of the committee however the committee is appointed by three members to

all of them are minister at the judges from the greeks justice and one of them is there to present that they have of the un they'd see our catalonia as former president has urged the spanish government to accept the results of a local election there earlier this month that the center twenty first poll gave a slim majority to separatist parties push the moment has been in brussels since being sacked the scotland's leader and threatened with arrest. or no deal so. the spanish government has a new opportunity to be here because the european democracy it clear to be and therefore recognize the results of the election that took place on december twenty first and in this way to start a political negotiation with the legitimate government of catalonia but then again that's why as president of catalonia i demand that the spanish government and the ones who back them rectify those things that no longer work restore the damage caused and replace everything they have removed without the legal permission of the

cattle and people the ballot boxes have spoken the democracy has spoken everyone has been able to express themselves what is really waiting for in order to accept the results to accept the will of the council on people. liberia's new president george way a has given his first speech since winning the presidential election runoff this week he will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf in the first democratic transition of power in liberia for more than seventeen years where a former footballer of the year pledged that to fight corruption in the country. i can also mona was to the people of liberia. who have made this historic did possible what the people of liberia of did live on for the contrary to not even describe it was we were some of the government committed to fighting for the idea that have inspired our campaign

and that it could. for the liberian people those tools. to serve. must be dedicated to the. source of transformational. was a person who's looking. the load room. to the members of core optional will have. much more to come here on al-jazeera. a christmas party video ignites the base in south korea but the treatment of women in the workplace plus i'm to see a new man on the northern coast of cuba and coming up i'll tell you why the largest island of the caribbean is actually shrinking.

hello there was no go quite a bit of moisture over many parts of australia so thanks to our storm hilder the disintegrated over parts of australia but it's still giving us a fair amount of residual showery weather here and that's what we'll see over the next few days a fair amount of cloud if you outbreaks of rain i think for alice springs it'll just be cloudy at times i think here will avoid most of the wet weather towards the east while here the temperatures are behaving themselves for a change to twenty five they should be dry and twenty four the maximum in sydney here the temperatures will be rising there as we head into the new year so twenty nine degrees our maximum brisbane will also be climbing up to thirty one and here there's a chance of the old thunderstorm during the day over towards new zealand you can see this huge blanket of cloud with us at the moment that's marching its way northward it's got some fairly brisk winds on it as well and as it works its way north as it's giving us some fairly hefty downpours eventually though as we head

through sunday and into monday things should begin to brighten up a few showers still with us but not the wall to wall rain that we will have seen so twenty degrees the maximum temperature there in christchurch as we head up towards japan we've got a huge weather system working its way towards us as well as it very clearly here getting a fair amount of rain sweeping its way eastwards so fairly mild behind it though tokyo at twelve degrees on monday. when diplomacy fields and fear sweep then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's not to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on

al-jazeera. back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera iran calls on its citizens to avoid what it's calling illegal gathering excess protests over the country's in qana me continue for a third day now at least nine people have been killed in airstrikes in the damascus suburb of beeston. and the funeral has been held for a palestinian shot by israeli soldiers he was protesting against the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. now in many countries the

end of year office party is a chance to socialize with colleagues but the blurring of work and social lives can cause problems in south korea the role that a group of nurses was expected to perform at their hospital party has sparked at the base about the treatment of women by their bosses kathy novak reports from seoul. to their treatment when these women became nurses this was not part of the job description video of them dancing at a hospital talent show was posted on social media prompting a national conversation about something not often openly discussed in south korea the treatment of women in the workplace these nurses didn't want their identities revealed fearing repercussions at work for the talent show we were forced to dance we had to wear indecent clothes and perform sexy dances on stage and we were embarrassed. she says hospital officials sat in the front row judging the

performances and that refusing to participate wasn't an option unless she could find a colleague to take her place. in south korea because of the confusion tradition of respecting it's difficult to say no to superiors this type of power abuse has become normal you. lawyer leonis says sexual harassment is a problem for south koreans of all professions especially when junior employees are expected to drink with their bosses after hours. a year and talking is a common occasion for sexual harassment people expect women to pour drinks for men or for young and pretty women to sit next to older male bosses. drunk male bosses hug us and hold our hands during these company occasions but we can't say anything because they're our bosses in the most recent government survey the majority of those who say they experienced sexual harassment took no action among the reasons given were that they thought it would make no difference and that they would be

disadvantaged at work the government announced plans to impose harsher penalties for sexual harassment in november after a young employee at the country's biggest furniture company hun sen's accused colleagues of raping and sexually assaulting her the employment and labor ministry found the company failed to investigate the claims and fined one some about five thousand dollars. as for the talent show a hospital spokesperson said it is planning to reform the dress code and is considering getting rid of it completely kathy novak al jazeera sole. extraordinary events in zimbabwe last month saw the military force longtime leader robert mugabe to resign but he hoped the outcome of a general election in the new year will help improve the economy and boost zimbabwe's standing on the world stage how with us of reports from harare. after decades of economic stagnation high unemployment and

a shortage of cash people hope things will get better in twenty eighteen robert mugabe resigned in november after the military intervened in a seminar goggle is the new president until elections are held while they wait for an election day to be announced they are registering to vote many here say they hope no matter who wins it will be a new beginning for zimbabwe go and see a country which is full of opportunities because you know i mean you college right now i'm studying and the reason why i'm studying is because i want to work so if i could complete my studies and then there's no work for me to do then. what is there in the past elections i've been marred by allegations of vote rigging and violence opposition leaders say the military and war veterans help to keep robert mugabe in power for thirty seven years the new commander of the defense forces says things will not be different and that the army will respect whatever zimbabweans decide at the polls as we prepare for the elections in twenty eighteen it is. that the

company and they were doing so for the day takes place in an environment of peace and tranquility opposition alliance members say despite morgan tsvangirai health concerns he is their presidential candidate has cancer now that mugabe is gone they say they are confident about mixture we are all. believe that the next winnowing enemies are going underground or we are going to be the next government this is why they are publicly a credible voter's role could help avoid another disputed election. zimbabwe is compiling a new voters role in replace the old emanuel register opposition party say is inaccurate and is dead people's names on it needed for commissions is the plan to register nearly seven million people before elections in twenty eight. as the bobbins prepare for those crucial elections they hope will be credible and violence free the international community has said if things go smoothly at the polls they

will be eager to invest to help ease the crippling cash crisis that could mean discreetly needed jobs most people waiting in line under the age of forty many are unemployed but they say for the first time in a long while there is hope that maybe twenty eighteen is going to be a good year. for al-jazeera. uncertainty still hangs over more than seventy thousand people who've been living in evacuation shelters since an indonesian volcano began erupting in early november step fasten reports from near mount agung on the island of bali. you know mom got that kill stein by helping out in an emergency kitchen his family sought refuge in this government shelter after they were forced to leave to phillips three months ago the indonesian government has ordered families not to return as long as the volcano remains at its highest alert level or sign up to that no one can mess up on my future looks pretty bleak

if i have to stay here in the shelter how can i pay for my children's education i've got no work here at least seventy thousand villages in the danger zone have been forced to leave their homes the three months have passed and boredom has kicked in the local authorities are struggling to keep them away from danger. every morning like many others goes up the mountain back to his village a thirty kilometer journey by motorbike so but if lies nearest to the crater and no man knows exactly how dangerous to full kaino can be just five kilometers away a bloody village lost more than five hundred people half of its population during the ninety six and three eruption a thick layer of hot lava and huge rocks destroyed most of the houses still many people choose to face a dangerous and return to the village to work rather than be chopped us at the shelter. whitmont as norming dangerously near your money and his neighbors are

mining stones and sand spewed from an eruption fifty four years ago the villages are getting some benefit from the next roll disaster then to make a long run a country it is a boat about with a lot on it and i force myself to be brave enough although the government doesn't allow it i'm fed up in the shelter how long do i have to stay there so while only a little smoke comes out of cocaine or i take my chance to earn some money in case there's a major eruption hopes he will have enough time to run while the government continues to urge people to stay out of the danger zone its policy has recently become more lenient to crossing the line for law than committed. the people because the situation is taking so long and because it will cain is activity is not always high we allow people to get back to their villages during the daytime to work and come back to the shelter at night. but newman decides not to return to the shelter and spend the night at his house trying desperately to get his old life back hoping and

praying that and i will go back to sleep very soon stop fasten al-jazeera so bloody village. the cold weather that's gripping parts of north america could take several more more days to ease in chicago heavy snow fall has buried cars and blocked roads and parts of the famous niagara falls that the can of the u.s. border could freeze over if the cold weather persists well the cold weather has also caused the sri dead sharks to wash up on a beach in massachusetts on the u.s. east coast the atlantic white shark conservancy says the three males likely became stranded and fell into cold shock while trying to make their way to war waters in the house. well the impact of climate change is being felt all over the world especially on lower lying islands scientists say that the rising water level is causing cuba to shrink latin america editor lucien newman reports now from the

coastal town of harmony. what it really is and his wife have lived by the ocean for nearly sixty years long enough to notice that something is changing especially when they look towards the key in front of them. forty or even thirty years ago during world hard you could walk over to the quay over there and you wouldn't get wet it was totally dry now the target is never lower than this it's all because of climate change. my daughter grew up here we didn't have this wall and i would lower her down there to play on the rocks because it was dry. in high many of us a coastal town you're had vanna everyone notices of the water level is rising on this snow lying island it's hard to believe what i'm actually walking on top of what was a swimming pool some forty years ago removed about thirty meters away from a beach that no longer exists it's yet another undeniable example of how the ocean

is eating away at much of cuba's coastline. a report prepared by the ministry of science technology and environment warns that by two thousand and fifty coastal levels will have risen twenty seven centimeters and by the end of the century it will be up by eighty five centimeters causing the island to shrink significantly. scientists argue the climate change is also provoking more frequent and stronger hurricanes flooding and at the same time prolonged periods of drought inland. the climate experts who prepared the report tell us a major action plan is being implemented to confront this new reality. in the. lying new practices like planting corals to increase and reproduce coral reefs and more mangroves which are key barriers for protecting the coastline and we need to adopt new construction practices in the caribbean we have experience building on

stilts did list is long but scientists concede that inevitably many people will have no other choice but to leave their homes and move in to see in human. money to ask you about. people living in the poorest neighborhood of the canadian city of vancouver face many challenges extreme poverty means that many are struggling to afford enough to eat but a project trying by three barbers is making sure that at the very least people there can get a decent haircut than a lot. of things doing good for others humans hope and humans meet the street bears during the week ross cameron and josh work at the city's top beauty salons but every sunday they're cutting coming in styling here in vancouver is downtown eastside a district where poverty and drug abuse are all too common as cameron knows for himself i have a history on the streets i was a heroin addict on that about twenty years ago i cleaned up off that and battled

opiates for the last twenty years and then we started this and that's pretty much when i did my last drug the people down here were closer with them than some of our closest friends that would be the last dollar out of their pocket if you know what you should do is come next sunday ross also spent time in the same neighborhood but he too found his way out through professional hairstyling the idea behind the street thug barbers he says is that no one should give up no matter how bad things get cameron i mean we've all had our past situations where our failures maybe someone else the successes in the future so whatever we can do to help whether it's find work or support our shelters or just an ear when it's warm enough they work in a nearby park they're nonpaying customers perched on milk crates they also cut hair on the sidewalk or in back alley ways in winter they do their cutting here at the living room a drop in center and clean needle distribution point for drug addicts the manager says sunday is the happiest day of the week for her clients and it's nice when you

live in a society that when you're here look the part is being poor that you're look upon as being less of a humid if these guys don't do that at all. they go. it's a common. it's a board and just a haircut like a short years no one who puts their name on a list run by the center is turned away the street thug barbers estimate they've trimmed and shared more than five thousand heads since they began a year and a half ago bringing happiness and haircuts to a neighborhood known mostly for urban blight and homelessness daniel like al-jazeera on vancouver's downtown eastside. in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera iran's government this calling on people not to take part in what it says are illegal gatherings is them

a stray sions are held across the country it's the third day in a row of protests some people are angry over high living costs others are demonstrating against iran's foreign policy the funeral has been held for a palestinian man who was shot by israeli soldiers during a protest in gaza the twenty year old was one of thousands of palestinians involved in clashes with israeli military along the gaza border they're angry at the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. at least nine people have been killed in airstrikes on the besieged damascus suburb of eastern huta aid agencies this week evacuated twenty nine critically ill people including children from eastern as part of a deal with the syrian government. meanwhile syrian rebels and their families have started to arrive in that the rod region south of the mask is following another government deal a convoy of buses carrying about four hundred fighters and their families was

allowed to leave the rebel enclave of beit jin and travel to the raw and they'd leave the rebels the last page into the syrian regime and its allies after heavy fighting earlier this month. the greek government has moved to block asylum being granted to one of eight turkish soldiers who fled their country during last year's failed coup an asylum tribunal ruled in favor of the man's appeal and is still considering the cases of the other seven but the government has filed a request to cancel the ruling earlier turkey's foreign ministry said that the situation would harm bilateral ties and regional cooperation. russia's supreme court has upheld a ban on the opposition leader election of on the running for president next year the valley has been barred because of a fourth conviction which he says is politically motivated he's calling on his supporters to boycott the vote president putin is widely expected to win a fourth term well stay with us coming up next on al-jazeera walls of shame and

i'll see you tomorrow with more things for watching the nature as it breaks. for the world cup. and hope even better in russia next year with detailed coverage try to imagine it only. right here. now this has taken over from around the world donald trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade a potential challenge to khorat a missed opportunity a braai. this is the u.s. mexico. a harsh landscape that's become the focus a bitter debate between the two countries. a k. group but only got paid.